Tag Archives: Eliezer Yudkowsky

A new glimpse into the revamped Overcoming Bias

Robin Hanson: Chris, Eliezer was not “purged.” He requested to have his old posts moved to Less Wrong. No one else has made any similar request. Eliezer was not “expelled”; he choose to move in order to build a community … Continue reading

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Are good blogs driven by author personalities or by well drilled topics?

Justin Wolfers has escaped the Overcoming Bias purge, it seems. Justin Wolfers’s 4 posts (published in 2007) remain archived on what is now Robin Hanson’s QUOTE personal blog UNQUOTE. By contrast, Eliezer Yudkowsky’s posts written for Overcoming Bias now redirect … Continue reading

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Outstanding post by Eliezer Yudkowsky

Check it out. How to prepare for the worst… now.

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Could information go backward in time?

Applied to the psychological arrow of time, that would mean that we could remember the future, instead of the past. We would make a killing on prediction markets if we knew in advance how all contacts would expire. But, in … Continue reading

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Super Tuesday = Free money, if you are smarter than the crowd

At Overcoming Bias, Eliezer Yudkowsky invites pundits, partisans, and anyone else with a nascent opinion about the limits of prediction markets to, in effect, put up or shut up. (Though he puts it in somewhat nicer words). Here is a … Continue reading

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Publicizing your blog is easier than marketing your book.

Eliezer Yudkowsky: [...] A blook is a collection of blog posts that have been edited into a book. Logically, then, publishing a book as a series of blog posts ought to be known as “blooking”. [...] #1. Sounds great. #2. … Continue reading

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YAHOO! RESEARCH SCIENTIST DAVID PENNOCK IMPLORES AND SUPPLICATES GMU PROFESSOR ROBIN HANSON TO CONTINUE BLOGGING.

David Pennock: Academic papers largely influence … other academics. In a cycle that often seems set up to do little else than impress one another within a insular niche. Ok, I’m exaggerating the skeptic’s side of the coin, but it … Continue reading

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